Paul Drake Detective Agency
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The Paul Drake Detective Agency is the private investigation firm run by fictional detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Drake Detective Agency canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6167804 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Drake Detective Agency Context triple: [Paul Drake, employer, Paul Drake Detective Agency]
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A.
Kojak
Kojak is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the tough, lollipop-licking New York City detective Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas.
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B.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a classic American comic-strip detective character known for his distinctive yellow trench coat, two-way wrist radio, and crime-fighting adventures against colorful villains.
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C.
Peter Gunn
"Peter Gunn" is a jazz-influenced television theme composed by Henry Mancini, later famously reinterpreted in a synth-pop arrangement by the Art of Noise.
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D.
Rampart
Rampart is a 2011 crime drama film starring Woody Harrelson as a corrupt Los Angeles police officer whose life and career spiral out of control.
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E.
Perry Mason & Co.
Perry Mason & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American publishing firm best known for producing the influential family and youth periodical The Youth's Companion.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Drake Detective Agency Target entity description: The Paul Drake Detective Agency is the private investigation firm run by fictional detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason series.
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A.
Kojak
Kojak is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the tough, lollipop-licking New York City detective Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas.
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B.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a classic American comic-strip detective character known for his distinctive yellow trench coat, two-way wrist radio, and crime-fighting adventures against colorful villains.
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C.
Peter Gunn
"Peter Gunn" is a jazz-influenced television theme composed by Henry Mancini, later famously reinterpreted in a synth-pop arrangement by the Art of Noise.
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D.
Rampart
Rampart is a 2011 crime drama film starring Woody Harrelson as a corrupt Los Angeles police officer whose life and career spiral out of control.
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E.
Perry Mason & Co.
Perry Mason & Co. was a prominent 19th-century American publishing firm best known for producing the influential family and youth periodical The Youth's Companion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional detective agency
ⓘ
fictional organization ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Perry Mason
NERFINISHED
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Perry Mason (novel series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Perry Mason (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Perry Mason (television series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Perry Mason law practice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Erle Stanley Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employs | Paul Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Perry Mason universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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legal drama ⓘ |
| hasFictionalLocation | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | private investigation ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
literature
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radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting organization ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Paul Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryClient | Perry Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
background investigations
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evidence gathering ⓘ private detective services ⓘ surveillance ⓘ witness locating ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil case investigations
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criminal defense investigations ⓘ |
| worksFor | Perry Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Paul Drake Detective Agency Description of subject: The Paul Drake Detective Agency is the private investigation firm run by fictional detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.